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SOURCE: NPR
9/27/2022
Recovering the Story of the Black Men who were the Nation's First Paramedics
In Pittsburgh's Hill District in the 1960s, a group of Black men from a neighborhood where many were considered unemployable revolutionized emergency medical response. But the story of Freedom House has been suppressed.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/8/2022
Why Medical Exceptions to Abortion Bans Won't Protect Women
by Evan Hart
Under new restrictive state laws, judges and lawyers, not doctors or patients, will decide who can get a medically necessary abortion.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
9/1/2022
A Return to the 1960s "Abortion Handbook for Responsible Women"?
by Lina-Maria Murillo
Women acting on principles of mutual aid have worked to make information about reproductive health, including terminating pregnancies, available even at risk of legal punishment.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
8/11/2022
"Phantom Catholic Threats" Haunt Ireland's National Maternity Hospital
by Máiréad Enright
Secular Irish health advocates fear that a partnership between the state and religious charities to operate the national maternity hospital will impose limits on care, including abortion access. Is this justified or a case of finding "nuns under the bed"?
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8/7/2022
The COVID Era is the Latest Episode of Medical Scapegoating of Asian Immigrants
by Catherine Ceniza Choy
From smallpox to COVID, Asian Americans have been blamed and attacked for supposedly causing disease, while their contributions to American health have been ignored. This medical scapegoating and the violence that often follow it demonstrate the need to teach more Asian American history.
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8/7/2022
Healing a Divided Nation
by Carole Adrienne
From specialized trauma care to emergency transportation to board certification of physicians, when we encounter the medical system today, we are experiencing Civil War medicine.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
7/26/2022
The Racist Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment was Exposed 50 Years Ago
The study ran for 40 years, as nearly 400 Black men were diagnosed with syphilis but denied care so that scientists could study the progression of the disease, even after penicillin was available as an effective and safe treatment.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
7/28/2022
Can America Apply Lessons from HIV/AIDS Crisis to Deal with Monkeypox?
by Dan Royles
Public health debates on monkeypox need to look at the history of health messaging about HIV-AIDS to focus on communities of gay men currently at risk while avoiding triggering homophobic responses and stigma.
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SOURCE: Associated Press
7/25/2022
How an AP Reporter Broke the Tuskegee Syphilis Story
Fifty years ago, Jean Heller revealed the horrifying truth that the US government had been denying hundreds of Black men treatment so they could study the progress of the disease.
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SOURCE: Nursing Clio
6/30/2022
Nursing Clio's Collective Reproductive History Syllabus
This is a selection from an in-progress project to develop a collectively-sourced syllabus for the history of reproduction and reproductive rights and freedom.
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SOURCE: NPR
6/11/2022
Milbank Memorial Fund Apologizes for Role in Tuskegee Syphilis Study
The Milbank Memorial Fund donated pittances to the families of Black men who died of untreated syphilis with a grotesque condition: families had to agree to intrusive autopsies to gather information about the effects of the disease.
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SOURCE: The Nation
6/11/2022
Intimacy at a Distance: A New Book on Teletherapy Reviewed
by Danielle Carr
Hannah Zeavin's book traces the roots of the contemporary surge in mental health apps and pandemic-driven teletherapy, arguing that psychiatry has always relied on a fantasy of unmediated communion between two separate people that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/23/2022
When the Constitution Was Written, Abortion was a Choice Left to Women
by Lara Friedenfelds
"Before the 19th century, civil society regarded abortion as a private medical matter for married women, and a problem in need of occasional discipline when it was a sign of extramarital sex."
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SOURCE: Boston Review
5/17/2022
What if Mental Illness Isn't All In Your Head?
by Marco Ramos
A historian of mental health reviews two new books and concludes that pharmaceutical and neurological approaches to mental health have failed and it's time to turn the lens onto society.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
5/16/2022
Nursing Clio Project Connects Health, Gender and History
“The personal is historical,” the blog’s authors declare — and its lineup of historians and authors proves that point again and again.
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5/1/2022
A Century After the First Insulin Injection, It's Time to Make Sure It's Affordable
by Martin Abrahamson and Sanjiv Chopra
The US Senate has the opportunity to honor the legacy of the doctors who pioneered insulin treatment by making sure that everyone who needs this life-saving medicine can afford it.
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SOURCE: Fortune
4/23/2022
Does the Forgotten "Russian Flu" of the 1800s Give Clues How COVID Will Wind Down?
One lesson seems clear: there is no neat two-year timeline for pandemics, and viruses can circulate at a low profile for a long time.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian
4/19/2022
Racism and the 19th Century Yellow Fever Epidemic in New Orleans
by Karin Wulf
Karin Wulf interviews Kathryn Olivarius about her new book on the social and racial factors that prolonged a contagious epidemic that may have killed as many as 150,000 people in New Orleans between 1803 and 1861.
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SOURCE: LitHub
4/20/2022
Historical Novelist Dolen Perkins-Valdez Shares Her Reading List for the History of Medical Racism
"I wrote my newest novel Take My Hand because I believed there were too many people who did not know about the history of forced sterilizations among poor women of color."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/24/2022
The Religious History of Caesarean Surgery and the Abortion Debate
by Elizabeth O'Brien
In the 18th century, priests in Spanish colonies in the Americas were required to perform Caesaran operations on pregnant women whose own lives were beyond saving in order to baptize their fetuses, helping to develop the Catholic doctrine that the unborn already had souls.